Creating Tables in DokuWiki

I'm trying to create a table in DokuWiki, with a cell that vertically spans, however unlike the examples in the syntax guide, the cell I want to create has more than one row of text.

The following is an ASCII version of what I'm trying to achieve

+-----------+-----------+
| Heading 1 | Heading 2 |
+-----------+-----------+
|           | Multiple  |
| Some text | rows of   |
|           | text      |
+-----------+-----------+

I've tried the following syntax

^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^
| Some text | Multiple  |
| :::       | rows of   |
| :::       | text      |

but this generates the output

+-----------+-----------+
| Heading 1 | Heading 2 |
+-----------+-----------+
|           | Multiple  |
|           +-----------+
| Some text | rows of   |
|           +-----------+
|           | text      |
+-----------+-----------+

I can't find anything in the DokuWiki documentation, so I'm hoping I'm missing something fundamentally simple?

Solution 1:

^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^
| Some text | Multiple\\ rows of\\ text |

All you need is line breaks within a table cell. Enjoy!

Solution 2:

I know it's a long time after question was answered, but just to give more options to community:

You can also use plug-ins like EditTable for visual editing of tables (like in Microsoft Excel): https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:edittable

And the other options are listed here: https://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:table_editing